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Poll: New Homepage Design for Community

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Hey Community! We’re in the middle of a full redesign of our developer site. After the new Documentation and Forum we will release a new design of the other tools soon! We’ve made two designs for the homepage and would love to know which you prefer. Design A Design B Simply reply to this message with “design A” or “design B” and let us know why. It is important for us to understand what you want yo get out of the community and feedback like this really helps us out. Thanks! Jason

asked 2017-10-02

jason teunissen

20 answers

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design A

answered 2017-10-02

Stephan Numan

Larn van de Vries · Answer 1 · 2017-10-02

Design A is visually more appealing and a lot more 'modern' in it's feel. But Design B gives me more information and feels more categorized which is easier to scan.

If design A could have some slight work on the visual categorization and 'scanability' of the content that'd be my pick. Best of both worlds.

Ronald Catersels · Answer 2 · 2017-10-02

I liked design A the best.

Regards,

Ronald

Paul Ketelaars - Deprecated · Answer 3 · 2017-10-02

Design B, imo it's much more in line with the current developer sites and learn.mx

Thijs Schoemaker · Answer 4 · 2017-10-02

I prefer Design B because of the smaller content blocks.

Allard Brand · Answer 5 · 2017-10-02

I prefer Design A, cleaner and more modern if you ask me

Mathilde Mulder · Answer 6 · 2017-10-02

Design A is way more appealing to the eye, but at first sight it's not very clear where to find what. In design B you very quickly see where to find what, but the styling of it looks a bit outdated.. If I had to choose I'd say design A.

Chris de Gelder · Answer 7 · 2017-10-02

Design A Design A Design A Design A

Dennis Kho · Answer 8 · 2017-10-02

I think it depends a bit on your goal and from who's perspective you view it. Design B will present the user (developer) with most of the "necessary" info in one view. Staying "up to date" on the various subjects is easier from there.

Nevertheless, I like Design A more, since I don't use the community page in the way I described above. Also in terms of how Mendix could be perceived, this would be a good, professional looking choice.

Jeffrey Draaijer · Answer 9 · 2017-10-02

I prefer Design A, because it's cleaner but I do like Design B because it's compacter.

Sjors Schultz · Answer 10 · 2017-10-02

Design B as it is easier and quicker to navigate to certain content. Nice and clean!

Adnan Ramlawi - TIMESERIES · Answer 11 · 2017-10-02

Design A looks better, but B is more in line with the other pages. So for uniformity I would suggest going for B

Andrej Gajduk · Answer 12 · 2017-10-02

Design B
I can see all the information with much less scrolling

Pieter van de Braak · Answer 13 · 2017-10-02

I prefer Design A, but Larn his comment is spot on.

Erwin 't Hoen · Answer 14 · 2017-10-02

I prefer design B, much more compact.

Information is more compact and you see what you need in a quick glance.

Mike Kumpf · Answer 15 · 2017-10-02

Design B

more compact = less scrolling = faster to my destination

Loet Romijn · Answer 16 · 2017-10-02

I prefer Design A, more modern, easier to read as there is more space. Design B is outdated and there's too much text in a small space which makes it more difficult to scan over - as I don't read everything.

Wieke Bouten - TimeSeries · Answer 17 · 2017-10-02

Even though I like how cool design A looks, my vote goes to B: it provides a quicker/better overview of all options

Tim Hendricks · Answer 18 · 2017-10-03

Design A would be my choice. I do think that the top banner is taking up too much space but overall this looks way more inviting and informative than Design B.

Bertan Gundogdu · Answer 19 · 2017-10-03

Design A is much better, IMHO, because it gives an alive feeling to the site. Whereas design B seems like mostly static content.

Everything in Design B looks similar so visitor cannot easily differentiate among them.

Although Design A uses more space, it is actually more usable as it clearly differentiates among different section and also provide useful data for each of them.